Example sentences of "i wanted [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I wanted to die in the USA . |
2 | I saw quite a few artists whom I wanted to represent on the trip . |
3 | It felt light in his arms ; a child starved of love and food and warmth : ‘ And although a part of me , deep buried , hidden away , knew , ’ he said , ‘ still I wanted to weep for the pity of it . ’ |
4 | I think it 's a very good cause , I wanted to invest in the future . |
5 | I had the Count send him my plans for the work I wanted to do on the buildings . |
6 | I was really enjoying my new status as a mother and being at home and caring for Danielle and watching her grow and learn was all I wanted to do for the rest of my life . |
7 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
8 | If I wanted to point at the put directory . |
9 | Like every other aspiring young artist , I wanted to go to the Slade or the RCA ( Royal College of Art ) to do a post-graduate degree . |
10 | I wanted to go to the top people . |
11 | I wanted to go to the Yorkshire Moors or the Lake District : I had romantic visions of myself as a drystone waller , indomitable against the elements . |
12 | I told my parents that I wanted to go to the lavatory and have a wash . |
13 | I wanted to go to the toilet |
14 | We 've been out this morning , that 's right , we got back in and I was then going to go over to Saint Mary 's church club , I wanted to go to the bank at Saint Mary 's church , and erm , back door bell goes ding ding ding ding ding and I think it 's Chris cos Chris is normally the only one , go out there and who should it be ? |
15 | It was a conscious choice that I wanted to go into the company , but I did n't have a clear view as to what particular part of the business I was interested in . |
16 | ‘ I knew I wanted to go into the application of research ’ , he said . |
17 | ‘ I wanted to go into the Royal Air Force , always did . |
18 | I 'd already decided I wanted to go into the Army and it would n't have been a good idea to have anything on my record about supporting some left-wing group . |
19 | Then I wanted to join the army and that was another two months of warfare , and then when I wanted to go in the police force my parents said , ‘ You 're trying to tell us something about your attitude to school , are n't you ? ’ |
20 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
21 | Becky thought that she was the ‘ BB ’ whose hand I wanted to hold on the bus tonight . |
22 | I wanted to talk to the famous pianist before his concert . |
23 | Knowing that I wanted to speak to the bedu woman to learn more of her life , the Sheikha signalled me to stay while they moved out of the dining room , pulling their veils over their masks . |
24 | The interest of the BBC 's Heart of the Matter was triggered by Newsnight and that , in turn , caught the attention of a researcher on Wogan , Mandy Nixon , who asked if I wanted to appear on the programme . |
25 | I wanted to start at the beginning . |
26 | Have I written all I wanted to write about the room , or have I left out something important ? |
27 | For some reason the ‘ Poet-Public-Faith ’ article did not get used ; but meanwhile Collingwood , whose acquaintance I had made , had received the advancement he amply deserved , and I wanted to write in The Criterion about his first lecture as Professor . |
28 | All this was making my muscles feel slack and unused , and I wanted to sprint up the street just to feel myself alive again . |
29 | ‘ I did n't want to stop during the race because it was my first attempt at the 400 metres hurdles and I wanted to get into the junior rankings , ’ she said . |
30 | no I ca n't and she would n't get off the phone and I wanted to get to the phone and she said , phone me up Is it all right then , I 'll phone him afterwards ! |